Gift articles previously were accessible just with the link. The latest article I attempted to read now requires me to first sign up
Gifting someone a news article feels so dystopian
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2024
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I have some issues with WaPo's reporting at times, but honestly, how do we expect to fund quality journalism if we never pay for news?
Publicly funded news corporations with journalistic freedom would be nice
As much as I hate them, ads. The same newspapers have always made money. Along with the Wikipedia route of asking for donations
I don't disagree, but ideally quality journalism should be treated as a public good, as it's, well, a source of information about the world, an extention of education, you could say
A lot of European countries have tax-supported independent news organizations
We just read free fearmongering content on right wing extremist websites instead, duh
The right answer is through memes and 4chan
It's like back in the day gifting rout bought newspaper copy to someone else to read
*grift articles
might be something one of the filter lists can take care of. with scripting disabled and ubo enabled, article is readable at the sample link provided.
Pro tip: the login wall is added at the end of page load. If you tap the Esc key at the right moment to interrupt the load, you'll end up with the full article rendered without the bullshit
What happened if you hit start reading without entering an email?
It throws a verification error. You also cannot just provide a nonsense email address
You can't provide any email address, by the looks of it. Even a Gmail address (which I assume would be most likely to be whitelisted) fails. Guess that's one way to force subscriptions...
yea.. that ain't gonna happen. ever.
i will just paste your headline into a web search and find another source (often the same exact article).
Summary: No longer gifts.
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Beside the point. That was never required for gifted articles